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ATENT OFFIC EDWARD K. IVARREN, OF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,181, dated January 1 8, 1887. Applicationfiled February 8, 1886. Serial No. 191,259. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I. EDWARD K. WARREN, residing at Three Oaks, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in XVhips, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- I Figure 1 represents a portion of the lower end of a whip; Fig, 2, a cross-section on line 00 x of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a representation of one of the strands separated between the ends.

The object of this invention is to provide a neat, strong, and elastic whip or whip-stock, and this I accomplish in the manner and by the means hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, a indicates the covering of thehandle; b,tlle central portion c,the strands; d, the overwinding of the strands, and e the covering. a

The whips in what I consider their best form are made with a handle and a central eX- tension, 1), of a cheaper material, with the elas-- tic body commencing at or near the upper bead of the handle. hen a handle is thus formed I take a number of strands, 0, (usually eight,) and surround the central portion, 1), and overwind them with the thread (Z, and then cement them together by glue or other suitable cement and cover them withabuckskin or strands are separately formed and overwound by a winding-thread, which thread may be applied by a suitable machine as the strands are formed. These strands are placed around the central portion, b, ordinarily commencing at the bead of the handle; but they may extend through and form the body of the handle, as well as the body of the whip, a suitable handle-covering being applied.

,A. central strand may be used instead of the cheaper or stiffer central portion, 1).

It will be apparent that each strand 0 is a separate and distinct portion of the whip, which, to a certain extent, is independent'in its action when the whip is bent or flexed, and the strength of the whip is thereby-improved, as well as its elasticity, and it is also less liable to be broken in use than where the parts forming the whip or Whip-stock are assembled without any distinct separation between them.

ldo not broadly claim a central core or stem in the manufacture of whips; nor do I claim a whip havingan elastic, filling composed of quills or quill-splints arranged to overlap and break joints and bound together to form a tapering elastic rod.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method herein described of making whips, which consists in separately overwinding the strands, laying a series of such strands longitudinally along a central core or strand,

' then overwinding said strands upon the core and cementing them together, and finally inclosing the whole in an outer covering,substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a whip consisting of a central core, b, aseries of distinct separately-overwound strands, 0, extending longitudinally along and surrounding the core, an overwindingthread, d, and an outer covering, e, substantially as-shown and described.

EDWARD K. WARREN.

Vitnesses:

HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, JAMES H. HATFIELD. 

